Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You've got to be careful.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

Baruch (_Benedict de) Spinoza

Form follows emotion

Walter Isaacson

These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.

Chuck Palahniuk

Do not worry about your problems in mathematics. I assure you, my problems with mathematics are much greater than yours.

Albert Einstein

There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

Rufus M. Jones

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

Larry Flynt

P.S. I enjoy acid pops.

J.K. Rowling

Women. They are a complete mystery.

Stephen Hawking

Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.

Tom DeLonge

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Ambrose Bierce

I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.

Ryan White

That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first fascination with science fiction. I have tried to build on its idea content and narrative drive rather than to discard them.

James Gunn